

"What's Wrong With Extinction?" with Claire Colebrook
What's Wrong with Extinction?
- Extinction is inevitable and natural.
- The problem with extinction depends on what is being extinguished.
Humans and Extinction
- Humans are products of extinction, emerging after prior mass extinctions.
- Extinction and climate change are integral to human existence.
The Emergence of 'Life'
- The concept of life, as distinct from mere existence, emerged after the 18th century.
- This shift coincided with the emergence of the human as a process, not just a form.





























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This special episode features a replay of Claire Colebrook’s presentation of her paper What’s Wrong with Extinction?, delivered at the Time, Waste, Extinction workshop held at Penn State University in September 2024. Acid Horizon was proud to collaborate with this event, bringing together leading thinkers to interrogate the cultural, ethical, and political frameworks through which extinction is commonly understood.
In this talk, Claire challenges anthropocentric assumptions underlying ecological and ethical debates, urging a reconsideration of extinction beyond human survival and crisis narratives. The presentation offers a compelling exploration of extinction’s implications for life, ethics, and political imagination.
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